{"id":132926,"date":"2026-02-13T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132926\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:29:10","slug":"brooklyn-woman-who-claimed-missing-autistic-child-doesnt-exist-has-his-name-tattooed-on-her-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132926\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn woman who claimed missing autistic child doesn’t exist has his name tattooed on her arm"},"content":{"rendered":"

The emotionally disturbed Brooklyn woman who claims she\u2019s\u00a0not the mother of a missing 11-year-old autistic boy<\/a> has his name tattooed on her arm, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Friday.<\/p>\n

The revelation adds another layer to the suspicion that Jacqueline Pritchett, 50, is indeed the mother of Jacob Pritchett, 11, a non-verbal boy last seen by neighbors late last summer \u2014 and was likely killed, Kenny said.<\/p>\n

An NYPD cadaver dog detected blood in the refrigerator inside the family\u2019s Brownsville apartment on Howard Ave. and on a mattress near a dumpster outside the building, Kenny said. But police have not recovered the youngster\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe tells us that she is barren \u2014 she does not have a child named Jacob, although she has a Jacob tattoo on her arm,\u201d Kenny said. \u201cWe know the kid exists. She\u2019s denying it, and it\u2019s just a matter of now finding him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe presence of blood in multiple locations in the apartment, the cadaver dog hitting, it\u2019s most likely going to be a homicide, but we\u2019re still working through it,\u201d the chief said.<\/p>\n

\"PoliceThe mother of Jacob Pritchett, 11, is being questioned by NYPD detectives after her son was reported missing from their residence on Howard Ave. in Brooklyn on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Police learned of Jacob, who appears to have been home-schooled, when officers last Oct. 1 searched the family\u2019s apartment with an investigator from the Administration for Children\u2019s Services<\/a> after an anonymous tip about the boy\u2019s well-being was called into a state hotline.<\/p>\n

Aside from the blood trace in the refrigerator, the apartment appeared to have been scrubbed clean, according to court transcripts. Toys were found in the bathroom and in closets.<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Pritchett claimed the toys were hers and that she was a single woman, though at first she said she was a single mother, according to the transcripts.<\/p>\n

\"AA green police seal is seen on the door of missing child Jacob Pritchett’s apartment on Howard Ave. in Brooklyn on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

But police were suspicious from the start and, with the help of state police, searched at two upstate landfills, combing through 68 containers holding 2,920,360 pounds of trash.<\/p>\n

Nothing was found, Kenny said.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information regarding Jacob\u2019s whereabouts is urged to call NYPD Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The emotionally disturbed Brooklyn woman who claims she\u2019s\u00a0not the mother of a missing 11-year-old autistic boy has his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-132926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-city","12":"tag-county","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}